The 2025 Best Sapper Competition ended with a two-man team of Army Rangers coming in first, and in so doing, completing a near-sweep of major Army combat contests in 2025 by the elite unit, but it ...

FORT MCCOY, Wis. - Mine detection. Call for fire. Weapons jumble? OK. Land navigation. Ruck march. Casualty evacuation ... most Soldiers know what that stuff is, right? Throw in a non-standard Army ...

Combat engineers in the Army, also known as “Sappers,” will compete for the “Best Sapper” title at the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Friday through ...

A Hawaii-based combat engineer became ‘triple-tabbed’ by completing three of the Army’s most demanding courses, Ranger and Sapper school, and a Hawaii-based Jungle course. Earning all three is rare ...

In Sapper – Defuse The Bomb Simulator you will learn the ins and outs of one of the world's most dangerous professions. People say that a sapper is only wrong once. Still, the weight of this sentence ...

The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning the prestigious — and rigorous — annual competition of Army combat ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- When something gets in the way of the mission, it's the 1138th Engineer Company's job to move it. And when Sappers move something, things tend to get loud. On Thursday, about ...

Capt. Joseph Palazini, left, and Capt. Matthew Cushing, right, took first place in the Army's 16th Best Sapper Competition. (Angi Betran/Army) For the winners of this year’s Best Sapper Competition, ...

CAMP DODGE, Iowa – Engineers from the 402nd Company, 389th Battalion, from Des Moines, Iowa, conducted Sapper Stakes at Camp Dodge, Iowa, Aug. 27-28. The purpose of the training was to test the ...

Sgt. Hailey Falk, a combat engineer in the 101st Airborne Division, receives her Sapper tab on Dec. 7, 2018. Falk is the first enlisted woman to complete the Sapper Leader Course. (Stephen ...